No, it's not wierd. I'm just blind, stupid, or some combination thereof. I completely forgot that I have C:\WINNT and a few other mounted as /WINNT, etc. When I did
ls C:/ I was actually seeing my Cygwin root, *not* the root of my C drive. Sorry for the confusion. --Rick --- Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick, > > Well, it gets weirder. > > I activated the "show-all-if-ambiguous" and now when I type, say: > > % echo c:/<TAB> > > What I get is a list of the _Cygwin root_! > > The same thing results if I use: > > % echo d:/<TAB> > > > Here's my mount table: > > % mount > D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) > D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) > D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) > \\.\A: on /dev/fd0 type user (binmode) > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount) > d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount) > e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount) > g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount) > h: on /cygdrive/h type user (binmode,noumount) > > > Here are the symlins in my Cygwin root: > > % ll / |egrep -e '->' > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 29 09:11 a -> /cygdrive/a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 c -> /cygdrive/c/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 d -> /cygdrive/d/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 e -> /cygdrive/e/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 f -> /cygdrive/f > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 08:50 g -> /cygdrive/g/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 94 Nov 21 12:57 h -> /cygdrive/h/ > > > Randall Schulz > Mountain View, CA USA > > > At 10:44 2002-04-16, Rick Rankin wrote: > >Hmm... I've set no special options regarding case sensitivity, but > >completion with both upper and lower case drive letters works fine, i.e., > both > > > >ls c:/<tab> > > > >and > > > >ls C:/<tab> > > > >show me the contents of the root directory on drive C. I *do* have the > >directive > > > >set show-all-if-ambiguous on > > > >in my .inputrc. Don't know if that has any effect. > > > >--Rick > > > > > >--- Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Larry, > > > > > > I deliberately use case sensitivity for completion, but even knowing > that, > > > completion on absolute names in Windows native format does not work for > > me. > > > I tried with the drive letter both in lower and upper case, but no go. > > > > > > Perhaps there's another option of which I'm unaware? > > > > > > > > > By the way, for Chris' benefit, in case he doesn't already know, the > > > "~/.inputrc" directive for getting case insensitivity from completion is: > > > > > > set completion-ignore-case on > > > > > > > > > Randall Schulz > > > Mountain View, CA USA > > > > > > > > > At 09:56 2002-04-16, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > > >At 12:45 PM 4/16/2002, Chris Metcalf wrote: > > > > >Currently, if you use completion on a path with a drive letter (e.g. > > > > >"ls -d c:/win<TAB>"), bash considers the drive letter to be unrelated > > > > >syntax and expands out of the mounted root instead (e.g. c:/cygwin). > > > > > > > > > > > >I don't see this behavior. It works fine for me (tm). Perhaps you're > > > >getting caught by bash's default case-sensitivity of filename > completion? > > > >I can't even begin to imagine why you get the root directory as a result > > > >though. I'm guessing this must be a local environment issue. > > > > > > > > > > > >Larry Hall > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
